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Weapons against your people. and i know that he used chlorine bombs against his people, and thats bad. but sarin gas is a whole nother level of horrible. so i think it was important. i supported that strike because it was important just as a punitive strike, not as the start of any kind of ongoing or new military campaign, although of course we have almost 1,000 people, troops in syria right now. in afghanistan, we have an ongoing war. all he did was use a different kind of bomb. i mean really i...

So with the public that anxious, both on the left and on the right about the idea of war, why do you suppose that its so reflexive among even your democratic colleagues to support any kind of a military strike. it just gets applause across the board in the halls of congress. >> well, of course the threats are real, and we have not had a debate, joy. we have not really looked at what a comprehensive strategy is, what it means, what it entails. we do not know what the military options entail. mili...

And for what. it has been used over 37 times in 14 countries for many, many actions non-related to 9/11. so for the last seven or eight years, i have been trying to repeal this. each time that a defense authorization or appropriation bill comes up, i provide an amendment, which of course doesnt pass, but were up to maybe 140 or 150 votes, and im going to continue to do this until we get to 218 because minimally, we should come back to congress. we should repeal this resolution, have a debate and...

With xi, you know, where they have the summit. it sounds like donald trump and president xi, president trump and president xi agreed they needed to do more on north korea. and president trump seems pretty optimistic that china is going to deliver something. to my mind, the pressure should be coming from china. it should be economic and from the international community. but the military pressure does make me nervous because there you run into a huge danger of miscalculation. weve got over 28,000 ...

Bombs against his people, and thats bad. but sarin gas is a whole nother level of horrible. so i think it was important. i supported that strike because it was important just as a punitive strike, not as the start of any kind of ongoing or new military campaign, although of course we have almost 1,000 people, troops in syria right now. in afghanistan, we have an ongoing war. all he did was use a different kind of bomb. i mean really i think its a little overhyped. on north korea, im very concern...

And for what. it has been used over 37 times in 14 countries for many, many actions non-related to 9/11. so for the last seven or eight years, i have been trying to repeal this. each time that a defense authorization or appropriation bill comes up, i provide an amendment, which of course doesnt pass, but were up to maybe 140 or 150 votes, and im going to continue to do this until we get to 218 because minimally, we should come back to congress. we should repeal this resolution, have a debate and...

Both on the left and on the right about the idea of war, why do you suppose that its so reflexive among even your democratic colleagues to support any kind of a military strike. it just gets applause across the board in the halls of congress. >> well, of course the threats are real, and we have not had a debate, joy. we have not really looked at what a comprehensive strategy is, what it means, what it entails. we do not know what the military options entail. military options always there if ther...

It should be economic and from the international community. but the military pressure does make me nervous because there you run into a huge danger of miscalculation. weve got over 28,000 troops in south korea. of course millions of south koreans are sitting there, sitting ducks in you will. >> and the vice president is in south korea as well. lastly, matt, where is congress in all this? i feel like this debate is what they should be having right now. >> sadly you only have barbara lee and some ...

This was sort of standard operating procedure for intelligence agencies. i mean there is a legitimate issue here on the unmasking of american officials who show up in the surveillance of foreign governments. but its just so odd how the white house in this case has sort of used nunes and damaged his credibility over such a seemingly minuscule matter, this tweet. you just sort of wonder whether nunes is such an important ally for the administration, whether they might have wanted to preserve his c...

Like, that ive heard everything that was short and others saying it was 20 short. >> they had about 35 votes against the bill. i think theyre pretty far off. in terms of the freedom caucus, theres some discussion on the hill that is interesting. congressman labrador, who is part of the freedom caucus, responded to the presidents trump. he said look, remember who your friends are. on the campaign trail, the freedom caucus stood up for candidate trump when paul ryan disinvited him from the rally. ...